Cultivar

B. ‘Summer Smoke’

Photos

2 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Summer Smoke’
Originator: Tim Anderson
Date of Origin: 2001s
Place: Florida
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Semi-Tuberous
Female Parent: B. dregei var. dregei
Male Parent: B. ‘Don Miller’
Publication Reference: BCL2

Plant

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Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

Male parent

B. ‘Don Miller’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Summer Smoke’

Female parent

B. dregei var. dregei

B. parvifolia auct. non Schott: Graham, Bot. Mag. 66:pl. 3720. 1839.; B. suffruticosa Meisner, Linnaea 14:502, "1840". 1841.; B. natalensis W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 81:pl. 4841. 1855.; B. rubicunda hort. Turic. ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. richardsiana T. Moore. 1871.; B. richardsoniana Houllet. 1872.; B. partita Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 10:fig. 2. 1961.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. bolusii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143, pl. 6:fig. 2. 1961.; B. reniformis hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1854 non Dryander. 1791.; B. suffruticosa Meisner f. worsdellii Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:143. 1961.; B. parvifolia E. Meyer ex Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 4:357. 1836;

Male parent

B. ‘Don Miller’

Optimara released this commercially as B. ‘Frosty’. The male parent for this cultivar is B. "pinafore sport" which was later named B. 'Torch'

Female parent

B. U062

Opinions vary on plant type, this plant often considered a Cane-like - mallet

Male parent

B. ‘Torch’

B. ‘Pinafore Sport’

Female parent

B. ‘Pinafore’

Female Parent cited as a seedling of B. ‘Elaine’;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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